PlayStation Blogcast 056: My Big Fat Game of the Year Show

You have spoken! The winners of the first-annual PlayStation.Blog Game of the Year Awards have been revealed at last! Now it’s time to listen to a bunch of people you don’t know discuss great PlayStation games you may or may not have played. Behold! The final, thrilling episode of PlayStation Blogcast for 2012 is about to begin.

It’s high time we brought in the illustrious Dan Hsu, Editor-in-Chief (“EIC” if you’re super cool) of GamesBeat and former Editor-in-Chief of EGM, to class up the joint for a few precious hours. Along with straight-shooting PR man Aram Jabbari and a loveable scamp we’ve dubbed Nick Suttner, we plunge into the year’s best moments in gaming, whether it’s the stark vistas of Journey, the monochromatic mysteries of The Unfinished Swan, or the eye-popping menus of Persona 4 Golden. We touch on a ton of titles across PS3, PS Vita and PS Mobile, so this is a great chance to get inspiration for those last few stocking stuffers.

With the holiday PlayStation Store seeing a light holiday publishing schedule next week, today’s show focus squarely on our favorite games of the year — be sure to leave yours in the comments, too.

Thanks again for your support of PlayStation Blogcast. Happy holidays and see you in early January!

Curious if you guys sent out the free games for people who’s tips got on the show the last week. My email was read but haven’t seen a code show up. Just want to make sure I didn’t miss it. I understand it’s probably real hectic during Christmas… take your time. I’m hoping for Tokyo Jungle… *hint* * hint* haha

Great Blogcast, BTW, so um i bought big sky infinity on the PS3 last week, but can’t transfer over on the Vita. It keeps giving me error message. And when i try to download from my Vita download list, same thing. Thanks for looking into this.

Hey, this is early. I’m going to listen now, so I won’t be lulled to sleep by Nick’s soothing deep voice. (I still don’t know what you guys & the Sess talked about last week. Fell asleep on both attempts)

I have to disagree with Nick.. although I didn’t like the ME3 ending, the entire journey was not nearly as great as ME2. I picked Jack as my love pick from ME2, but I was a bit disappointed with how little she was involved along with the majority of the ME2 characters.

Cross Controller for the PS3/Vita is broken! Care to explain why a lot of people are having problems not having it to work!! I tried to DL the file on the Vita but it keeps stopping, and every time I try to re-downloading it it restarts! I need answers to this issue NOW!!!

SONY SONY!!! YOU SHOULD BUY THQ THEY ARE BAKRUPT RIGHT NOW AND ITS A SHAME THEY HAVE A LOT OF GOOD IP’s C’MON HELP THEM AND HELP GAMERS TOO YOU CAN WIN A LOT OF EXCLUSIVES BY DOING THIS AND GET A LOT OF SELLS FOR YOUR NEXT CONSOLE AND GAMES

You guys should seriously do a segment of the show where you talk about movies. I love your movie talk and your arguments/discussions over Prometheus were one of the more memorable diversions from this year’s episodes. It really shows you have passion for film. How would you work it into the Blogcast, though? Well, I noticed Blu-Rays are getting more notice on the Blog’s store updates, and films are heavily featured on the PSN storefront, so why not do a movie discussion part of the show as well? :)

That was getting really awkward to listen to, would it have killed Hsu to not constantly bring up XBOX games? I know from listening to him before that he’s a huge 360 superfan (I hate the word “fanboy”), but my god, man, you’re on a officially run PlayStation podcast, tone it back.

I know that is not the correct place for it, but if I make this question in the Update’s topic I never would receive one answer.
I downloaded the CS:GO’s trial, but, if I try buy this game, seems like if I already bought, but, is a trial.

@25: Did you play through the whole time in the trial? Because it says when you buy/download them that you can’t buy the games until you use up the trial, or something to that effect. That’s all I could think of. Never personally bought any of the after using trials, I would just pick it up on bluray

Can someone look into having a ‘SORT’ feature included when we are viewing our download list?

While I really enjoy most of the feel of the new store, especially being able to access add-ons and videos from the games main information screen. This has been MUCH needed. However, at this point in the game me, and many of my friends have an immense download list and the current view of “My Downloads” doesnt even allow me to write the number the download is in my list.

It has needed a ‘SORT’ feature for some time now but if it also had a ‘FILTER’ option, I could then view just add-ons, or only avatars, or even just the main game install package if I ever have to delete corrupted data files.

Hey sid, I love listening to the blogcast every week. One suggestion though, I never hear you guys talking about Grand Theft Auto or Saints Row. I’d like to hear what you guys think on the Blogcast of both series, maybe even do a comparison and see which you prefer? Maybe sometime down the road even possibly interview someone from volition games? Saints Row 3 technically came out late 2011 but it’s been my favourite game this year so far. I’m a diehard gta fan but I found SR3 blew it away, esp. the vibrant colour. I so can’t wait for SR4.